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I sat in the examination halls with my eyes pacing about & my heart praying. I looked at my watch & discovered the 7hrs I calculated in my head was just 13mins.

I concluded it was over for me & I'm getting an extra year until...

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Well I attended an expensive private scho close to the house from my kindergarten days up to my primary school. So far amongst the 8 students I always came first undisputed & everyone was sure I was intelligent except my cousin sister who called me local champion.

She always told my dad that I'm just enjoying the privilege of no competition that if I was sent to a public school I would be beaten hands down 😂😂😂😂

It always sounded funny & unbelievable until one day I got angry & made my dad consider her appeal.

It was going to be a big move as it was a Catholic school & everyone who went there was always considered very intelligent but I wasn't bothered bcos I knew what I had upstairs.

Every of my friend in my previous school advised me against it but I wanted to show off.

Being a chatty kid, I made all the friends I could in split seconds & before I knew it I was super popular.

The name of the school I came from made me the "number one man" bcos of the cost of their school fees. Everyone revered me in the glass.

Somehow, I discovered I was as bright as everyone perceived me to be. I was barely able to answer questions in class and most times my answers were off so I applied wisdom & kept mute more often than not. Even when teachers call my attention I fake sickness or something.

Is not me they will use & shine. No to the devil on this matter.

Time flew faster than I expected. We had just written the tests & I was sure I did very "unwell". Even with all the reading I tried to do, it would seem I was seeing something else when I looked into my books

And now it's the exam period, the only chance I have to make up for my failure in the tests.

Funny enough everyone (basically the dummies like me) wanted to sit with me bcos they wanted me to teach them in the hall.

Everything within me was warning me to avoid them but come on, I needed to save face & still be the big wig of the class as everyone was expecting me to be.

Some even took it upon themselves to start buying me lunch from 2weeks to the exams so they can get some

If only they knew😂😂😂😂

On the day of the exams, I quickly hurried into the halls & sat in the middle to avoid any troubles but before I got there, they were just sitting there waiting for me; they even kept seat for me (should I tell them)

Right in the hall, the teachers were already hailing me & giving me accolades me & the devil know I don't deserve but I just had to play along & save face (in my mind all I cared about was how I was going to pass this exam & not repeat a class).

These guys kept disturbing me in the hall bcos of the way they saw my hands moving with my pen. By their calculation, I have written over two pages. As a sharp guy that I am, I had to ask for extra sheet so that they will belive me more

In my mind, I was sure by the time this exam was over, everyone would know I'm a scam & I don't know shigbain. But I kept faith while I pretended I knew what I was writing.

As the good Lawth would have it, Adesua the most brilliant girl in the class was transferred

To a seat near me (as soon as this happened, even the angels in heaven were sure I had passed this exams). I quickly transferred my scripts to the people behind me & started copying & photocopier everything in Adesua's scripts.

I was so professional about it that she was shocked how brilliant I was, with the way I was minding my business. Anytime she asked for extra sheet me too I asked for my own😂😂😂. "We die here" was the kinda thought going through my mind.

After about 5hrs, the exams was over & boom I came out like I was the examiner bcos I was too sure of what I copied.

The guys I passed my wrong papers to were just hailing me upandan, they shared it across the whole class & everyone respected me

At a point I began to feel bad for the whole school bcos they all copied my wrong exams but I was just happy I had redeemed my image (since I was able to copy from the great Adesua).

In two weeks time, the results were ready & everyone who had gone to collect theirs were happy

They kept calling to thank me & I was feeling good with myself. I just decided to delay collecting mine since I already knew the content of the result.

As a matter of fact, my friends gathered & did a small parry to thank me for helping them pass.

My pride level rose to level finish. I could barely walk around bcos I felt like I was flying over the moon. Mehn, I at some point decided to change my name to "Aristotle".

I walked shoulder high & heads up in school & in the neighbourhood.

Things took a new turn when my dad drove me to school to pick up my result. Actually, my dad felt proud of me seeing the kind of respect & love shown to me. As soon as my dad opened my result, he immediately passed out.

While the people around were trying to revive him, I quickly picked up the result to see what happened & booooooooom🔥🔥🔥 I passed out too.

Two weeks after I woke up in the hospital bed, I discovered I failed woefully.

As in that kind of failure that even people that failed still see you as a failure. As a matter of fact, they use your measure of failure to thank God for their level of failure.

I discovered all I wrote before Adesua were perfect. I was just scared.

I eventually learnt that Adesua was a transfer student like me from another school that was over hyped. She didn't know shingbain & I gave out the good thing I had written to copy her trash. Everyone that copied from me passed successfully except Adesua & myself

Hope you had a great read.